Senior Data Engineer

About Ethos

Ethos is a leading life insurance technology company on a mission to protect families by democratizing access to life insurance and empowering agents at scale. With its robust three-sided technology platform Ethos is transforming the life insurance experience for consumers agents and carriers alike. Ethos offers instant accessible products and a seamless online process that requires no medical exams and just a few health questions; it eliminates traditional barriers making it easier than ever for everyone to protect their families. Ethos is redefining how life insurance is bought sold and underwritten.

About the Role:

Ethos is seeking a Data Engineer (IC3) to join our Data Platform team and build the internal infrastructure services and tooling that the rest of the companys data stack runs on. This is a software engineering role with a deep data background. You will design and operate distributed workflow systems on Temporal and Airflow build internal platform applications (including config-driven UIs that let teams author and run their own ingestion and transformation jobs) and write Python libraries that other engineers across the company consume. You will also administer the data infrastructure we own such as Snowflake dbt Cloud Airflow and Kafka with deep ownership of governance reliability and cost.

Your customers are other engineers analytics engineers data scientists and operations teams. The platform you build is what makes their work possible. If you enjoy building developer-facing platforms operating distributed systems in production and going deep on the modern data stack wed like to talk to you.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Build and operate internal data platforms services and distributed workflow systems (Temporal Airflow) that the rest of the companys data stack runs on.
• Write and maintain internal Python libraries (including shared Airflow operators and frameworks) consumed by other engineering teams.
• Build and operate Temporal-based workflow systems for long-running reliable distributed data workflows.
• Build internal data platform applications including config-driven UIs that enable users to author and run their own ingestion and transformation jobs.
• Own cost governance across Snowflake dbt Cloud Airflow and Kafka and other data platform services including monitoring alerting and optimization initiatives.
• Administer Snowflake at depth: role hierarchy design RBAC data masking and row access policies network policies resource monitors and cost governance.
• Own production code end-to-end: design review deploy operate and respond to incidents.
• Develop end-to-end automation for service and ML model deployment ensuring smooth transition from development to production.
• Implement tools and processes to monitor the performance reliability and health of production systems and ML models.
• Support the Analytics Engineering function by building the platform capabilities (orchestration CI/CD testing frameworks metadata) that data marts are built on.
• Work closely with software engineering analytics operations business and product teams to understand and meet their platform and data requirements.
• Ensure that all platform and data warehouse activities adhere to regulatory standards data privacy rules and company policies.

Qualifications and Skills:

Required:

• 5 years of experience in software engineering.
• Strong proficiency in at least one programming language such as Go or Python.
• Experience building and maintaining backend systems internal tools or platform applications in production environments.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals including data structures algorithms concurrency and system design.
• Strong understanding of software development best practices including CI/CD automated testing code review and observability.
• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.
• Strong understanding of ETL processes data warehousing and data governance principles.
• Experience building and managing data-intensive or distributed applications.
• Experience designing and operating APIs services and workflow-based systems.

Good to Have:

• Experience with Go & Python in production environments.
• Experience with workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or business-critical internal applications.
• Experience with MLOps including ML model deployment monitoring and lifecycle management. Familiarity with tools and platforms like MLflow Kubeflow or SageMaker.
• Experience with Snowflake Airflow and dbt.
• Experience with stream processing frameworks such as Flink.
• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and containerized deployments.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling for production systems

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Dont meet every single requirement If youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply anyway. At Ethos we are dedicated to building a diverse inclusive and authentic workplace.

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